Peter Smith
Active Member
Nothing to do with Brexit, so don't panic; Eu is a real place on the north coast of France close to Le Treport and it's where we have based our loco shed layout.
As this thread is named 'layout progress' I'm not going to describe what already exists as the layout has been around for a couple of years. However as we are taking it to Perth next weekend I have done some work on the end baseboard to freshen it up as it hadn't been touched since it was built. Eu depot is O gauge and we run loco's from MTH, Fulgurex, Sunset and Lenz as well as a scratchbuilt 140C 2-8-0.
This signal is new, built from a French kit and operated using a Hoffmann point motor which is controlled from the Lenz handheld controller. The line goes into the fiddle yard beyond the bridge.
This is the wider view; I have replaced all the windows and shutters as the originals had been varnished with had dried streaky. They are all printed on paper, as is all the brickwork etc. The painted Dubonet advert on the wall is new too, coped from a picture of the real thing. The narrow gap really works well when the smoke fitted loco's run through. The buildings do have roofs but they are not fixed as they make the board too high, and at the moment they are at my storage unit with the rest of the layout.
The picture between the buildings was just sky which was a bit plain so I have replaced it with a townscape. The windows on the buildings are all new. A bus normally stands where the two men are waiting.
The view along the street; I had mistakenly included a zebra crossing but they didn't exist in France in the early 1950's so it has been covered up. The granite setts are printed on paper as is pretty much everything else you can see apart from the figures and vehicles.
Items such as drain covers and the drains in the gutters are also printed on paper. The shop windows are all printed paper behind a layer of glazing, using pictures found on the internet. It would take hours to model them properly and these look perfectly adequate.
Sorry there are no trains; I'll take some more pictures at Perth.
Peter
As this thread is named 'layout progress' I'm not going to describe what already exists as the layout has been around for a couple of years. However as we are taking it to Perth next weekend I have done some work on the end baseboard to freshen it up as it hadn't been touched since it was built. Eu depot is O gauge and we run loco's from MTH, Fulgurex, Sunset and Lenz as well as a scratchbuilt 140C 2-8-0.
This signal is new, built from a French kit and operated using a Hoffmann point motor which is controlled from the Lenz handheld controller. The line goes into the fiddle yard beyond the bridge.
This is the wider view; I have replaced all the windows and shutters as the originals had been varnished with had dried streaky. They are all printed on paper, as is all the brickwork etc. The painted Dubonet advert on the wall is new too, coped from a picture of the real thing. The narrow gap really works well when the smoke fitted loco's run through. The buildings do have roofs but they are not fixed as they make the board too high, and at the moment they are at my storage unit with the rest of the layout.
The picture between the buildings was just sky which was a bit plain so I have replaced it with a townscape. The windows on the buildings are all new. A bus normally stands where the two men are waiting.
The view along the street; I had mistakenly included a zebra crossing but they didn't exist in France in the early 1950's so it has been covered up. The granite setts are printed on paper as is pretty much everything else you can see apart from the figures and vehicles.
Items such as drain covers and the drains in the gutters are also printed on paper. The shop windows are all printed paper behind a layer of glazing, using pictures found on the internet. It would take hours to model them properly and these look perfectly adequate.
Sorry there are no trains; I'll take some more pictures at Perth.
Peter